Return EventEmitter as Observable in Nest.js - rxjs

Question

EventEmitter in Nestjs is wrapper around EventEmitter2 module. I whant that Server-Sent Events return Observable with EE.
import { Controller, Post, Body, Sse } from '#nestjs/common';
import { fromEvent } from 'rxjs';
import { EventEmitter2 } from '#nestjs/event-emitter';
import { OrdersService } from './orders.service';
import { CreateOrderDto } from './dto/create-order.dto';
#Controller('orders')
export class OrdersController {
constructor(private ordersService: OrdersService,
private eventEmitter2: EventEmitter2) {}
#Post()
createOrder(#Body() createOrderDto: CreateOrderDto) {
// save `Order` in Mongo
const newOrder = this.ordersService.save(createOrderDto);
// emit event with new order
this.eventEmitter2.emit('order.created', newOrder);
return newOrder;
}
#Sse('newOrders')
listenToTheNewOrders() {
// return Observable from EventEmitter2
return fromEvent(this.eventEmitter2, 'order.created');
}
}
But after subscribtion to this source from browser i've getting only errors
this.eventSource = new EventSource('http://localhost:3000/api/v1/orders/newOrders');
this.eventSource.addEventListener('open', (o) => {
console.log("The connection has been established.");
});
this.eventSource.addEventListener('error', (e) => {
console.log("Some erorro has happened");
console.log(e);
});
this.eventSource.addEventListener('message', (m) => {
const newOder = JSON.parse(m.data);
console.log(newOder);
});

Answer 1

It's quite likely that you forgot to format the event in the right way.
For SSE to work internally, each chunk needs to be a string of such format: data: <your_message>\n\n - whitespaces do matter here. See MDN reference.
With Nest.js, you don't need to create such message manually - you just need to return a JSON in the right structure.
So in your example:
#Sse('newOrders')
listenToTheNewOrders() {
// return Observable from EventEmitter2
return fromEvent(this.eventEmitter2, 'order.created');
}
would have to be adjusted to, for example:
#Sse('newOrders')
listenToTheNewOrders() {
// return Observable from EventEmitter2
return fromEvent(this.eventEmitter2, 'order.created')
.pipe(map((_) => ({ data: { newOrder } })));
}
the structure { data: { newOrder } } is key here. This will be later translated by Nest.js to earlier mentioned data: ${newOrder}\n\n